Tai Chi,good self-defense art or not?

[jubaji]

A tai chi practioner advanced enough to compete in the UFC wouldn't. It is never a practioner's goal to hurt someone.

Oh, not this bullshit again...

[Garland]

Oh, not this bullshit again...

Talking about shit...do you think I could harness my chi to prevent future bouts with constipation?

[smallone]

digestive system

Actually Tai Chi will help your constipation. But you aren't exactly "harnessing your chi" in order to do so. In the forms, the internal organs are messaged through the movements and your breath. Realxing them and allowing them to function properly.


Sorry if anything Ive posted is a repeat of other's posts. I am new to the forum and couldn't wade through all 75 pages of this thread.

[jubaji]

Talking about shit...do you think I could harness my chi to prevent future bouts with constipation?

Actually, that's where the term 'chi' originally comes from. It's the sound that the ancient masters made when they were trying to squeeze one out!

"Oh, chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii"

[jubaji]

Sorry if anything Ive posted is a repeat of other's posts. I am new to the forum and couldn't wade through all 75 pages of this thread.

Yeah, every tired old bromide you are thinking about repeating has probably been shat out here before. Maybe you should read the thread (maybe two or three times, no hurry) before enlightening us further.

[47MartialMan]

i wonder why he is called small one?

[Garland]

i wonder why he is called small one?

apparently it has nothing to do with lack of being able to take a hefty sized shit.

[47MartialMan]

apparently it has nothing to do with lack of being able to take a hefty sized shit.

well i wasnt thinking in a provacative manner

[VetaMega]

I have to say something....Shaolin Kungfu does not only consist of hard or external styles. It has a great deal of internal and soft styles.....Infact there are a huge deal of softness theories...and Shaolin internal skills greatly developed. Luo han fist and six rivers are two examples soft styles

[jubaji]

Umm...Ok...

[Mephariel]

I have to say something....Shaolin Kungfu does not only consist of hard or external styles. It has a great deal of internal and soft styles.....Infact there are a huge deal of softness theories...and Shaolin internal skills greatly developed. Luo han fist and six rivers are two examples soft styles

I think everyone knows that Shaolin Kung Fu contains both external and internal techniques.

[47MartialMan]

Shaolin Kung Fu doesnt contain anything

[TV954]

Tai Chi is for self-improvement.

My oh my, what an interesting number of opinions/replies. I doubt that very many have enough knowledge to really comment on such a broad subject. Really, in the broad scheme of things, who cares. Serious practitioners of any art that dedicate their lives to training and teaching seem to reach a place where the importance of the basic "nuts-and-bolts" approach becomes irrelevant. Martial arts are for self-enlightenment not brutalization of others. I can only hope that those who train to injure others will eventually come to understand themselves better.

"The hardest thing is for a man to change his character." T. T. Liang

[jubaji]

Martial arts are for self-enlightenment not brutalization of others.

Fortune cookies are in aisle 3.

[47MartialMan]

Fortune cookies are in aisle 3.

Martial arts not for brutalization?

What does the "martial" mean?

Or is it "marital"?